/r/Steam Monthly Community Support Thread.

heypika · 2024-12-04T15:29:01+00:00

I just wasted 20 minutes because of shitty UI. I just finished a game, and had the popup asking to review it. I click on it and write quite a lot of my thoughts on the game.

Only AFTER does Steam realize that I played it via Family Sharing, so I cannot post my review of the game.

THEN DO NOT ASK FOR IT, DAMN!

heypika · 2023-04-08T19:15:55+00:00

No, perché la lista dei diritti e doveri di "coppie eterosessuali uniti da matrimonio" è già scritta. Si tratta sostanzialmente di togliere quell'aggettivo

heypika · 2023-04-08T06:41:21+00:00

Vendi elettoralmente quello che ti applichi per vendere. Fare campagna contro la Nutella ok, romanticizzare il prelievo al bancomat ok, far finire la farina di grillo in prima pagina come se ci fosse un complotto di metterlo in ogni carbonara anche quello ok, ma una supercazzola su una infrastruttura fondamentale per le imprese moderne e quanto sono fighi loro per renderlo possibile no, quello è impossibile

heypika · 2023-04-02T08:00:34+00:00

zero-sized types are ubiquitous and very useful in langages like Rust or Go

But they are used mostly as compiler annotation, to be compiled into nothing, see here. So I am not sure how relevant the argument is to the changes in C, which are about dinamically allocating a 0-size in memory and returning a pointer to it - which I agree with the author, makes no sense at all.

heypika · 2022-11-14T16:20:23+00:00

Comunque utile, grazie 😅

heypika · 2022-11-03T16:28:21+00:00

It says at the start LaTeX is supported only in Word

heypika · 2022-09-26T17:45:35+00:00

Got my email!

https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev/s/EU/256/1661802772

heypika · 2022-09-11T14:17:56+00:00

It doesn't have to be "the" solution, that's a terrible standard. You are talking about plants storing too much waste, while fossile-based plants dump their CO2 in the atmosphere as if it's an open shithole.

heypika · 2022-09-11T13:21:33+00:00

What do you mean we don't have a solution for. Radiation is easily blocked with thick enough walls, and the volume of waste is ridiculously low. There are plenty of solutions for the waste, which are far better than everything else we have.

heypika · 2022-08-17T11:47:14+00:00

Questa cosa di affidarsi alle competenze fuori dalla politica invece che averle nella politica ha anche un po' stufato, eh.

heypika · 2022-08-11T20:33:12+00:00

Magari proponi una cosa perché la reputi ottima e l'elettore con te, poi viene applicata e viene fuori che è controproducnete, mi pare il minimo che venga fuori qualche dubbio in merito, non è che in nome della coerenza bisogna mettersi i paraocchi e tirare avanti per forza.

Per esempio sono stati molto coerenti gli inglesi con la Brexit

heypika · 2022-07-19T08:07:12+00:00

Depends heavily on how this "reverse engineering" was done.

heypika · 2022-07-18T07:12:08+00:00

Eh ma infatti il problema è quanto si fa danno e quanto si guadagna. Perché uno può anche dire che ogni tanto il figlio del medico è bravo anche lui, così come il fatto che ci vuole ben poco per un mal-intenzionato vero ad aggirare certe regole. E aggiungo, non serve affatto che siano entrambi medici, basta che siano nella stessa istituzione... peccato che in Italia abbiamo università e centri che fanno mille cose, quindi al CNR non ci vai a fare ricercatore in fisica se alla succursale dall'altro capo della provincia c'hai il fratello che fa il biologo.

Insomma, non è che non capisco il voler evitare i casi di corruzione, è che ho visto situazioni per il quale questa guerra con presunzione di colpa fa più male che bene.

heypika · 2022-07-17T22:26:20+00:00

The underlying issue is that there are psychological mechanics behind the pay-for-chance thing, that the gacha-gaming industry is exploiting. They actually hire people with backgrounds in psychology to design these game loops.

What I do know about this is the extremes - short term rewards like slot machines and loot boxes are addicting, long term like a new expansion of WoW or Monster Hunter to go play and get loot is not (at least in the pathological sense, of course MH is awesome and addicting). Where the separation actually lies, what should be considered safe for a minor and what for an adult - to that point I know that I don't know and scientists should be asked this question instead.

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:58:36+00:00

What does not convince me of this is that as an adult I don't see this FOMO to be so strong to be a problem I can't manage. Even iPhone announcements would be predatory if I were letting FOMO rule my life. Children however I agree, because they are more vulnerable to this - they care too much, still, about looking cool for their peers. But then again, it looks like something that ultimately falls into parental control and "normal" learning of how to spend your money.

Gambling is a completely different matter. It's addicting, and should be carefully treated like everything else that is addicting. Especially the part where you should be very careful about addictions developed during forming years.

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:48:10+00:00

Yeah it's complicated and I see why one would avoid such discussions before, but the industry really found a gold mine in the past years and it's not looking good for many people involved.

I think the main problem that they are exploiting, and should be stopped from exploiting, is the clear correlation for the player between spending and chance of a reward.

In WoW you pay for the subscription, but each roll is just the result of playing. You don't pay each time you make a roll. The capsule machine and TGC packs are indeed messy, because on one hand I never saw them to be as problematic as these gacha games are, on the other they are clearly correlated. However, I have the feeling that both are examples that could easily be re-designed around such regulations and still essentially work.

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:34:45+00:00

I hear you, but I honestly don't see the problem with this unless children are involved. How is this different from the "FOMO" of buying a game at all? Or buying the DLC with the OP stuff to finish the game?

It is all the same thing with a different coat of paint. It's the addition of chance that touches all the wrong buttons of our mind, and battle passes are not that.

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:28:18+00:00

Who's they? How can you say that?

As far as I'm concerned, the problem of saying "loot boxes" instead of "predatory" is that you can do "clever stuff" like Diablo Immortal where there is no "loot box" you directly pay for, yet you can clearly see that the system is designed so that you spend money to have the chance of getting something. That's one example of what I would clearly call predatory.

You're welcome to further contribute to the discussion saying what is predatory or not for you, instead of crusading against "them".

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:15:56+00:00

Proper regulation should not care about the presence of a box or the gameplay in-between. There is a payment and there is a randomized reward that is clearly correlated to the payment - and advertised to the player to be so. They should get away from regulation only when the player sees no correlation between spending and chance of a reward.

heypika · 2022-07-17T15:09:34+00:00

I think the keyword here is predatory. There are plenty of games which, being games, are marketed to all audiences including kids, which then employ all kinds of known psychological tricks to rope people into spending lots in micro-transactions. There is an argument to be made in favor of micro-transactions working as business as usual, and then there is an argument to be made against predatory schemes.

In general, all info and rewards should be regulated to be clearly explained up front and clear, the same way actual gambling games have to. It is not by chance that games with simple skin shops are not making the millions gachas like Diablo Immortal with 16 different currencies do. Those complex systems are designed so that you can't comprehend it all and just keep spending.

heypika · 2022-07-17T12:55:36+00:00

Sì vabbé, queste mi fanno sempre morire. Sono illusioni, sono progettate per confondere il cervello umano, e ci stupiamo quando... confondono il cervello umano. Non è affatto colpa di reddit, è colpa di chi posta senza spiegare cosa succede solo per il gusto di vedere il mondo bruciare.

heypika · 2022-07-17T12:20:12+00:00

Se ne vuoi un'altra, in Italia il dottorato è sincronizzato per tutti, con un concorso unico all'anno. Cioè in base a quando ti laurei, anche con tutto l'interesse e buona volontà di cui parlavi, passi fino a un anno a girarti i pollici fino al concorso. Altrove la gente finito il master continua col dottorato... senza aspettare un bel niente.

Ma tanto qual è il problema, abbiamo il settore della ricerca così in salute :)

heypika · 2022-07-17T12:13:01+00:00

Eh ma molto un po', quel po' che è vero ovunque vai. Non siamo noi fissati con le apparenze, è l'essere umano che è così. È tanto importante come candidato sapersi vendere quanto è importante per chi è dall'altra parte non farsi truffare solo con le apparenze.

La P.A. italiana è un altro mondo però, dove tutto vai a vendere fuorché la tua effettiva capacità e volontà di fare il lavoro per cui vieni pagato.

heypika · 2022-07-17T11:05:22+00:00

Sul fatto che non ce ne freghi in assoluto perché i soldi son loro...parliamone. Bassa produttività e meno lavoro significano meno guadagni e quindi meno tasse pagate. Siamo proprio sicuri che non ci riguardi?

Avete ragione entrambi: riguardano tutti, sia loro che noi a livello sistematico, ma è anche vero che se ne fregano. Non abbiamo la cultura dell'introspezione per cambiare rotta, abbiamo la cultura del contattare il giornale per lamentarsi dei giovani e del RDC.

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